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ELA Drills: Advanced: Parts of Speech 1. Separate the following words into infinitives and gerunds.
ELA Drills, Advanced: Textual Analysis 2. Which piece of evidence is irrelevant to the claim in the video?
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ELA Drills, Advanced: Word Meanings 2
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du
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jour brought to you by accord nous ark ark organist
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awkwardness you there we go that was awkward or check
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out the sins Edward was happy being a loner so
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his aloof nature didn't come as a surprise to anyone
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at the dance that night In this sentence the word
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aloof means what and hear the potential answer about unsociable
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and intense children some aloof is that a singular version
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of many lose Probably not if we will lose running
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while they were sure we'd have heard about it by
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now Okay so if someone has an aloof nature that
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means they're what we're told that edward is happy being
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a loner In other words he doesn't need to hang
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out with other people in order to have a good
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time Does that make him be awkward No just because
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you're first solitary to playing cards with friends doesn't mean
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you're necessarily awkward Is he see intense Well he might
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be but there's no evidence in the sentence that says
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it there's nothing inherently intense about being a loner unless
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you go home and stare at yourself intensely in the
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mirror every night That's creepy Stop doing that All right
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what about d intelligent While depending on his options edward
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could be intelligent for wanting to spend the majority of
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his time with the number one but intelligence is not
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a requirement of being a loner The correct answer here
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is a unsociable sociable People are always hanging out with
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their friends and are able to insert themselves into public
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gatherings or events with ease Unsociable people you know so
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much so it is don't feel too bad for edward
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though we hear that every saturday he gets together with
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a bunch of loose for a game of tag football 00:01:40.999 --> [endTime] and that could just be a rumor
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